1. A certain physical quantity, R, is calculated using the formula: R = 4a2(b - c) where a, b, and c are distances.

What is the SI unit for R? 2. Which of the following is a scalar quantity?

3. A car travels due east at 22 m s-1. It makes a turn due south and continues to travel at 22 m s-1. What is the change in velocity of the car?

4. An object of mass 6 kg is acted upon by a force F which varies with time t as shown in the diagram below. If the change of momentum of the object after time T is 30 N s, what is the value of T?

5. How much energy is dissipated in braking a 1000 kg car to a stop from an initial speed of 20 m s-1?

6. A disc rotates horizontally with uniform angular velocity about an axis through its centre. Which of the following graphs shows the correct relationship between the speed v of a point on the disc and the distance r of the point from the centre of the disc?

7. If the angular velocity of a body performing circular motion is , the number of revolutions per second is

8. The gravitational pull on a satellite on the surface of the Earth of radius R is F. What is the gravitational pull on the satellite when it is at a height of 2R above the Earth?

17 Two wires X and Y of the same length and of the same elastic metal are each stretched to the same tension. The diameter of wire X is half that of wire Y. The ratio of the elastic potential energy stored in wire X to that stored in wire Y is 19 The r.m.s speed of nitrogen molecule at 300 K is c. What r.m.s speed if the temperature of the gas is 1200 K

20 The diagram below shows the variation of pressure P with density for an ideal gas at 420 K and temperature T. What is the temperature T?

21 A fixed mass of an ideal gas absorbs 750 J of heat and it expands at constant pressure of 1.0 x 105 Pa from a volume of 5.0 x 10-3 m3 to a volume of 7.5 x 10-3 m3. The internal energy of the gas

22 The molar heat capacity of an ideal gas at constant volume is less than at constant pressure because

23 What is the work done on two mole of an ideal gas which is compressed isothermally at 400 K from a volume of 10 cm3 to 30 cm3? 24 Metal is a good thermal conductor because

25 A closed container contains water at 100oC. The container of total surface area of 0.5 m2 and uniform thickness of 4.0 cm has a thermal conductivity of 0.40 W m-1 K-1. If a heater of power 300 W is needed to maintain the temperature of the water, the external temperature is SectionA [ 40 marks ] Answer all questions in this section 1 The diagram below shows a projectile launched at angle 0 with the horizontal.

Find the angle of projection 0 at which the horizontal range and the maximum height of a projectile are equal. [5 marks] 2 A string of length, Z fixed at one end and a bob of mass, m is attached on another end. A conical pendulum is formed when the bob moves in a horizontal circle as shown in the diagram below.

(a)

Show that the frequency of oscillation, f is given by

where g vertical. [5 marks] 3 A wire has mass 5.3 g and length 2.50 m. A force of 50 N extends it by 2.3 mm. If the density of wire is 2.7 x 103 kg m-3, determine: (a) the Youngs modulus of the wire. [3 marks] (b) the strain energy per unit volume stored in the stretched wire. [2 marks] 4 A gas tank contains 1 mol of gas at pressure 1.0 x 105 Pa. Assuming that the gas behaves

as an ideal gas, (a) calculate its volume at 17 0C. [2 marks] (b) find the ratio of the volume of a molecule of gas to the volume of 1 mol of gas, if the diameter of a molecule is 2.5 x 10-10 m. [3 marks] Section B [ 60 marks] Answer any four questions in this section. 9. (a) Define work done on a body by a force [2 marks] (b) Using the work energy theorem show that work done by a constant force F pushing a block of mass m on a smooth horizontal surface is equal to the change in the kinetic energy of the block. [4 marks] (c) The diagram below shows a car of mass 1200 kg going up a slope with a constant speed of 20 m s-1 . The total amount of resistance to the car is 900 N and the angle of inclination of the slope is 200 ,

(i) Calculate the component of the weight along the slope. [3 marks] (ii) If the car is to move up the slope , what should be the minimum force exerted by the engine of the car? [2 marks] (iii) Calculate the power developed by the engine [3 marks] (d) If the power output of the cars engine is increased, describe the change in the motion of the car. [1 mark] 10. (a) State Newtons Law of Gravitation [2 marks] (b) An object of mass 1.0 kg is 3.8 x 108 m from the centre of the earth. Calculate the gravitational force exerted by the earth on the object. [Mass of Earth= 6.0 x 1024 kg] [2 marks] (c) Assuming that the moon travels at a constant speed around the earth in a circle of radius 3.8 x 108 m , calculate (i) the acceleration of the moon. [3 marks] (ii) the period of the moons rotation[3 marks] (d) (i) State the units for gravitational field strength [1 mark] (ii) Why is it incorrect to call g (=9.8 m s-2) gravity ? [2 marks]